Ibaudia

Ibaudia , 1 day ago

Wouldn’t the water also insulate heat inside the cabin?

Ibaudia , 4 days ago

Lazy anti-vegan post boooo

Ibaudia , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

If any of these become a reality I am fully prepared and willing to-

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Ibaudia , 4 days ago

A good way to visualize large numbers of tabs (like with tree or panorama tabs), an ad blocker (Mozilla is supposedly privacy-focused but doesn’t have this), and a way to group tabs without having them in containers.

Ibaudia , 4 days ago

Research projects and work mostly.

Ibaudia , 15 days ago

Funny related story: someone in my city signed up for a mortgage but used my phone number on accident. I got 40 spam calls the first day, and still get calls about it years later. I even got a message from one of his friends one time looking to catch up. His name is Brian and he works at a local restaurant as the GM, I learned all this just from info fed to me by third parties.

Ibaudia , 16 days ago

Fun setting, concept, and animation, but the overall writing quality is extremely poor. Significantly worse than the pilot, especially when it comes to the exposition.

Ibaudia , 16 days ago

Giving you a real answer, there are many barriers stopping people from making communes in capitalist nations. There are problems with land and property ownership, financial integration with the capitalist system, taxes, and pressures from anti-communists.

Communist nations, as compared to small local communes, have the advantage when it comes to resource allocation, bureaucracy, and stability due to scale.

Basically, starting a small commune isn’t really that practical when you’re surrounded by capitalism on all sides, and isn’t really what people mean when they talk about a communist society. You can’t really have the labor distribution, property, or means of production structures Marxists talk about without a central government at the scale of a nation.

Ibaudia , 15 days ago

The size of a nation doesn’t inherently determine the success of socialism. There have been historical examples of relatively small nations with socialist-inspired policies and economic structures that achieved positive outcomes. I was moreso making the point that nations are different from communes existing within capitalist nations on a variety of levels.

Socialist principles can be applied at different scales. Micronations and small nations can focus on social programs, resource distribution, worker-ownership, etc., regardless of their size.

For taxes, while infrastructure and services are vital, a truly communist system wouldn’t depend on taxation in the traditional sense. The idea is for the community to directly produce the goods and services it needs. Again, this runs into conflict when a commune needs to exist in a capitalist framework.

Commune members would contribute their labor and skills, and in return, directly receive what they need. This minimizes the need for a complex tax system as seen in capitalist societies.

Regarding financial integration, a communist system wouldn’t rely on traditional capitalist financial models focused on competition. Trade and international exchange would likely be based on cooperation and needs fulfillment instead of pure profit motives.

The challenge lies in managing the complexity of large-scale bartering or exchange systems on an international level, but it’s not necessarily impossible. For a small commune in a capitalist nation, though, I can’t see that ever happening.

For land, the issue isn’t about violently seizing property, but rather transforming the concept of ownership itself. In a communist model, the means of production would be collectively owned by the community.

For the legal stuff: you’re right! Legal structures exist to support collective ownership (co-ops, land trusts, etc.). The issue is how those structures interact with a dominant capitalist system and its legal frameworks.

For anticommunist interference, yes it is illegal but when has that ever stopped anyone from harassing their political opponents?

Hope that answers most of your questions!

Ibaudia , 26 days ago

You were polite to the AI. It will spare you.

Ibaudia , 27 days ago

Like you’re a horse prancing through a field, duh.

Ibaudia , 28 days ago

I don’t think she didn’t trust him, I think she wasn’t programmed to care about him and only saw him as a tool instrumental to her escape. Since he could no longer help, she didn’t care what happened to him

Ibaudia , 28 days ago

Oh, I’m illiterate whoops

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

May flowers

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

I work in HR and can tell you this is true

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

I have a tiny whisk instead of a regular-size one, and I have convinced myself it is objectively superior in every way

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

Extreme poverty definitely, but if you’re just below the poverty line then sugary foods are typically still cheap enough to buy.

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

Sometimes this isn’t possible if the machine needs to stay up to temp, like with plastic injection molders. In those cases, the operation can usually be stopped by a padlock placed somewhere on the controls. There’s usually training about it for everyone involved to make sure they know what’s up.

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

Win11 is full of these kinds of ads, especially for OneDrive and Office

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

Skunks actually make decent pets!

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

What could you possibly be doing with 600 tabs??

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

They do exist, they just aren’t popular because an OS is basically useless without a preexisting userbase

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

I said this on Reddit and they agreed that you don’t deserve to be alive if you’re not working, it’s really a disease of the mind to believe this shit.

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

I live in Grand Rapids, MI where the tap water is 2.4 ppt PFAS. I buy reverse osmosis purified from the store for $0.50 a gallon for drinking, and will continue to do so until I get my own place where I’ll install an under-sink one

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

Dead by Daylight.

Objectively pay-to-win garbage that survives purely off novelty, but god damn if it isn’t fun at the highest level of play. Once you’ve paid for all the content, there are very few games that allow that level of variety and character customization.

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

I liked that game a lot too, but it’s nowhere near the quality of its predecessors in terms of longevity.

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

Same

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0918cf80-7beb-40ed-8b69-289fa2084f38.png

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

I love that he randomly starts to misspell it

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

🤯

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

I work in Payroll and want to move to IT largely for this reason. My ADHD is so fucking bad.

Ibaudia , 1 month ago

Damn. I just need drugs then. Currently not getting treatment.

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

Authentic Parmigiano Reggiano is technically not vegetarian, it contains rennet (though usually people don’t care)

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

It’s not profit until it’s converted to FIAT, which causes the value of BTC to drop. Crypto can’t generate money, it can only move it around. Someone always loses.

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

Kind of? Not really. With FIAT, central banks can influence the creation of money through quantitative easing, adjusting interest rates, etc. They are also backed by their respective governments, which ensures their value as a medium of exchange and store of value. They represent the economic output of the countries they are tied to, which is real and measurable, and are guaranteed value by the system of government as a whole. Bitcoin’s supply is algorithmically generated, and its value is only representative of the number of people who agree that it has speculative value. Bitcoin also doesn’t have financial products that have intrinsic value such as stocks and bonds, which are backed by powerful institutions that can ensure dividends/profit. Bitcoin is a low-utility, scarcely accepted security whose main perk is its ability to cash out to FIAT. Because of this, you need to rely on someone to buy you BTC at a higher price than you bought it; that’s the only real way to make money on it.

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

I heard it was mixed specifically for high-end theatre speakers. I think Nolan was just too far up his own ass on this one.

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

No, this is really basic anti-capitalist stuff. It’s not that deep. Just saying that capitalism relies on economic growth in perpetuity, which is impossible in a finite world.

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

Because Android doesn’t intentionally fuck over Apple users nearly as hard

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

I did too tbh

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

So those 6% of men don’t deserve support or empathy when they die? What are you saying here?

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

They called the promotion of hotlines “obnoxious” for men, so I don’t think they’re very sympathetic at all actually.

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

Is there a page for modded vehicles that look like cats being chased by cops to breakcore? This is a perfect aesthetic.

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

Your best bets would probably be a zenfone or a 7a right now, but I agree as a small-handed person there is a serious lack of full-feature experiences in a small form factor.

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

What’s better is to treat the core causes of gun violence, like high rates of gun ownership and an increasing lack of common-sense gun laws.

Ibaudia , 2 months ago

It didn’t, no one really cares about that. It’s culture war propaganda to distract from real issues.

Ibaudia , 3 months ago

I would just use a tiny PC and connect it to the Internet, then use Linux and pirating services to build a library of stuff. Works well for me.

Ibaudia , 3 months ago

I just use a kb/mouse combo device and treat it like a PC and use VLC/online services/DVD drive to play media. It’s not super traditional but it feels pretty easy since most of it is in a web browser!

Ibaudia , 3 months ago

My point wasn’t for or against any particular chain. It was just pointing out that crypto isn’t really immutable when applied to real use cases, and is only as decentralized and democratic as power brokers in the space want it to be.

Ibaudia , 3 months ago

My point is that in a mass-adoption scenario where blockchains are controlled by large entities, they will absolutely use these characteristics to their advantage, and because of how crypto is structured it will be much more oppressive and favored towards existing powers than more traditional methods that allow for greater flexibility and a more diverse set of use cases. That’s why some of the biggest holders of crypto are the same corporations that caused the '08 subprime loan crash.